Subject: Re: Problems booting up with Q700
To: Hugh Lindley <mule@comnet.ca>
From: Jason Andrew Godfrey <godfreja@uwec.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/08/1996 13:25:05
netbsd.quadra should be in ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/outgoing/briggs/.
It's not the latest kernal, but I cam't remember the URL for the latest.
Good Luck
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Hugh Lindley wrote:
> I'm a NetBSD newbie and I've noticed that support for Q700 is finally
> available so I thought I would download it and get it running. I've managed
> to download all of the proper files for NetBSD 1.2 install and I think I've
> got things right. I've just got all the binaries from the 1.2 binaries
> directory of a mirror site.
>
> There are a few things however that indicate to me that I'm doing something
> wrong. When I attempt to boot this is the error that I receive.
>
> FPU0 at obio 0 (mc6840)
> nubus 0 at mainbus
> Argh! No Boot Device?? Only supports disk device for booting.
> Changing root device to a:
> panic cannot mount root stopped at - debugger + 0x6: unlk db
> db>
>
> Because of this I'm not sure if I've got the right kernel installed. Here's
> a copy of my root (as taken from the installer utility.
>
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 17 0 512 Dec 7 08:19 .
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 17 0 512 Dec 7 08:19 ..
> 3 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 8192 Dec 6 1996 lost+found
> 384 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Sep 9 05:08 altroot
> 768 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Sep 9 06:59 bin
> 1152 drwxr-xr-x 3 0 2560 Dec 7 15:35 dev
> 1920 drwxr-xr-x 8 0 1024 Dec 7 08:19 etc
> 4608 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Sep 9 05:09 home
> 4992 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Sep 9 05:09 mnt
> 5376 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Dec 7 08:19 root
> 5760 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 1536 Dec 6 22:52 sbin
> 6144 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Dec 6 22:48 proc
> 6528 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Dec 6 22:48 kern
> 6145 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 512 Sep 9 05:09 stand
> 6529 drwxrwxrwt 2 0 512 Sep 9 05:09 tmp
> 6912 drwxr-xr-x 14 0 512 Dec 6 22:52 usr
> 8857 drwxr-xr-x 18 0 512 Dec 6 22:52 var
> 14 -rw-rw-r-- 1 232 919896 Sep 25 07:00 netbsd
> fstat : No such file or directory
> 18 -rw-r--r-- 2 0 629 Sep 9 09:18 .cshrc
> 19 -rw-r--r-- 2 0 138 Sep 9 09:18 .profile
>
> As you can see the Kernel, netbsd, is dated September 25. Is this the
> latest kernel that I should be using or is there a later one that I should
> use. If so where can I find it. I've checked the NetBSD current directory
> and to no avail I can't seem to find netbsd.quadra (that I've seen referred
> to in other posts there).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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